Jew Or Not Jew?

Still available in the good ole USofA … Jessica Ravitz and Saskya Vandoorne report on a bizarre iPhone app for CNN:

“Jew or not Jew?”: That is just part of the question.

An iPhone app bearing this name has been yanked from Apple’s App Store in France amid threats of a lawsuit and demands for its removal.

The app, still available elsewhere, pulls together a database of thousands of famous Jews – including movie stars, musicians, Nobel Prize winners and more – and offers insights into their backgrounds. Jewish mother? Jewish father? A convert? For $1.99 in the United States, app owners can know.

In an iTunes store description, it says: “Hey, did you know that Bob Dylan is Jewish? Of course I did! But was Marilyn Monroe really Jewish? And what about Harrison Ford? How many times have we had this conversation without being able to know for sure? You can now find the answer.”

The intention was all in fun, app creator Johann Lévy told Le Parisien. The 35-year-old research and development engineer, who is British, French and Jewish, said he doesn’t understand the outcry…

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Go figure, someone’s getting sued over a jew app. Way to strengthen the stereotype. I think I’ll go piss on a kippah now, just to be a prick.

Nou

Go figure, someone’s getting sued over a jew app. Way to strengthen the stereotype. I think I’ll go piss on a kippah now, just to be a prick.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5WQXSSKAMOU4WCHKCWYMUKKKNU Aladin Sane

HA HA H AH AH!!! Holy shit did you make my day!

O. Spengler

I’m a staunch secularist myself, but in France secularism is being abused to oppress religious freedom.

O. Spengler

I’m a staunch secularist myself, but in France secularism is being abused to oppress religious freedom.

DeepCough

Hey, times was in France it was the other way around.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5WQXSSKAMOU4WCHKCWYMUKKKNU Aladin Sane

HA HA H AH AH!!! Holy shit did you make my day!

DeepCough

I’m afraid this app embodies the two things the French hate: Jews and American culture.

DeepCough

I’m afraid this app embodies the two things the French hate: Jews and American culture.

∆∆∆

American Culture? What an oxymoron!

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American Culture? What an oxymoron!

Hadrian999

George Carlin nailed American culture
“When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.”

Jumpingoffpoint

What the hell…. Where is the apologist from the slave owning family claiming Jews aren’t being discriminated against now?

Jumpingoffpoint

What the hell…. Where is the apologist from the slave owning family claiming Jews aren’t being discriminated against now?

Wanooski

Not quite as existential as “to be, or not to be?”.

Anarchy Pony

Not quite as existential as “to be, or not to be?”.

In_Theory

Maybe this is just me, but doesn’t keeping an official registry of Jews seem kind of…odd.

In_Theory

Maybe this is just me, but doesn’t keeping an official registry of Jews seem kind of…odd.

Andy_NZ

All I’ll say is for 1.7% of the US pop. they sure have a big influence in Media and Finance sectors in America…….

Andy_NZ

All I’ll say is for 1.7% of the US pop. they sure have a big influence in Media and Finance sectors in America…….

SF2K01

I didn’t know media or finance had quotas to match the general population. I guess you’d suggest that since Jews are only .02% of the world population that they’re over-represented in America and should be culled?

DeepCough

Hey, times was in France it was the other way around.

Hadrian999

George Carlin nailed American culture
“When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.”

Jbar

As a Jew, I think this is a little ridiculous, especially since the author is Jewish. But we’re talking about Europe, and maybe that’s a place where an overconscious awareness is called for where it comes to antisemitism might be called for. So either way, I don’t care if they keep the app or not. But the French love to hate Jews. Jealousy’s a bitch…

Jbar

As a Jew, I think this is a little ridiculous, especially since the author is Jewish. But we’re talking about Europe, and maybe that’s a place where an overconscious awareness is called for where it comes to antisemitism might be called for. So either way, I don’t care if they keep the app or not. But the French love to hate Jews. Jealousy’s a bitch…

Jbar

We’re smart. What are you gonna do?

Jbar

We’re smart. What are you gonna do?

Ellie

God grief has everyone forgotten the holocaust

Ellie

God grief has everyone forgotten the holocaust

Anonymous

I didn’t know media or finance had quotas to match the general population. I guess you’d suggest that since Jews are only .02% of the world population that they’re over-represented in America and should be culled?